One of the moves he is considering making is to mandate the federal government take over the electoral systems as part of the “critical infrastructure” of the United States or they could be more specific and apply it to interfering in elections. Elections would be taken from the States and turned over to the Department of Homeland Security, currently operating under the massively ineffective leadership of Jeh Johnson.

The administration is trying to make this action roll-back proof according to the Globe report.

‘‘Part of the goal here is to make sure that we have as much of the record public or communicated to Congress in a form that would be difficult to simply walk back,’’ said one senior administration official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Obama wants to box Trump in. All of the actions of his last days are meant to box Trump in and keep him from doing his job.

Obama issued the executive order in April 2015, creating the sanctions tool to hold accountable people who harm computer systems related to critical functions.

The Globe, still without evidence any of this is true, wrote: A year later, a Russian military spy agency would hack into the Democratic National Committee and steal a trove of e-mails that were released a few months later on WikiLeaks, US officials said. Other releases followed, including the hacked e-mails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.

Without proving a thing, the U.S. government is acting as if it is proven. If Trump says otherwise, the Democrats will say he’s lying. It is meant to diminish Trump’s presidency before it even begins.

The excuse for using this tool with 23 days to go in his presidency is allegedly to demonstrate its utility.

‘‘When the president came into office, he didn’t have that many tools out there to use as a response’’ to malicious cyberacts, said Ari Schwartz, a former senior director for cybersecurity on the National Security Council. ‘‘Having the sanctions tool is really a big one. It can make a very strong statement in a way that is less drastic than bombing a country and more impactful than sending out a cable from the State Department.’’

Another option, the anonymous, unnamed sources said, is to use sanctions against the Russian government or against other Russian targets such as hackers.

The Globe then criticized the Trump transition team for not having extensive briefings with the White House on cyberissues. They claim that the slow pace has caused consternation among officials, who fear that the administration’s accomplishments in cybersecurity could languish if the next administration fails to understand their value.

We have no idea if any of that is true.

The Globe referred to Obama’s efforts prior to this. One was his admonition to Russia to “cut it out” though the Globe left the phrase out in referring to it. The other was a “hotline-style Message using a special channel for crisis communication created in 2013 as part of the State Department’s Nuclear Risk Reduction Center. As part of that message, the officials said, the administration asked Russia to stop targeting state voter registration and election systems. It was the first use of that system. The Russians, officials said, appeared to comply.

We don’t even know if any of that is true.

With the clock ticking, the White House is working on adapting the authority to punish the Russians, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

One obvious goal of Barack Obama’s is to render President Trump as ineffective as possible in his first 100 days. Instead of quickly abolishing Obama’s “legacy” of socialism, Trump will be running around trying to put out fires.

No president about to leave office has ever done what this man has done. The ‘do no harm’ promise is being ignored.

The actions against Israel are particularly egregious. He has turned a land dispute between two countries into an international dispute with every nation being granted permission to punish Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and our ally.

Perhaps his actions against Russia will become more serious as he provokes hostility over unproven interference. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that if Hillary Clinton had been elected, we would have been engaged in a nuclear war. Could he be right? If so, we caught a bullet.

January 20th can’t come soon enough but if you think Obama will remain silent, you are wrong.

Obama needs to be arrested immediately for Treason, Plunder, Theft by deception, false pretences, use of aliases to cover criminal behaviour, attempting to over throw peaceful Nations by Bribery and LIES. Interfering with national election and waging war falsely against other nations. Impeding the transfer of POWER to duly elected President.

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